Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery

With more than 350 paintings, the Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery—the Livestock Industry Hall of Fame—is believed to be the world’s largest portrait collection commemorating a single industry. The gallery honors leaders in all facets of the American livestock industry, leaders chosen by their peers. Established at Chicago’s Union Stock Yards in 1903, where the International Live Stock Exposition resided, the gallery moved to the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville in 1977, home of the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE), where a new inductee is honored with a portrait each year.

Learn more about this historic collection and read the biographies of the individuals who have been inducted from 1903 to the present in the 2026 edition of the Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery Guidebook.

To purchase a printed copy of the 2026 Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery Guidebook, please contact Laura Berry at (502) 367-5196 or Laura.Berry@kyvenues.com. Books are available for $15 plus shipping.